[Commlist] CFP: Technology and Tradition Conference

Technology and Tradition: An Interdisciplinary Conference
5th June 2020
Hosted by Futureworks, Manchester UK

Academics, and media scholars in particular, are drawn to the new, the 
different, and the changing. Our emphasis always seems to be on what is 
cutting-edge, on radical breaks from the past. Far less attention is 
given to the continuities. And yet, as most practitioners will tell you 
– be they writers, musicians, animators, artists or filmmakers – it is 
continuity of practice that grounds most of our artistic mediums. 
Traditional methods of approach, the rudiments, the foundations; these 
staples of creative media production are, we contend, often taken for 
granted and overlooked in our academic search for new developments. This 
conference aims to bring together researchers from media, music and 
sound, video games, film and TV, animation, sociology, history, 
literature, politics, art and aesthetics, to interrogate the role of 
tradition in digital media and technology more broadly.

Abstracts for 20-minute papers are welcomed on subjects including, but 
not limited to:
•	How do traditional working methods encounter new technology?
•	How do technologies account for traditions of practice, for example in 
UI development?
•	The transfer of artistic tradition through technology
•	“Traditional technology” vs the new: when do technologies become 
traditions in themselves?
•	The unstudied continuities – the “fundamentals” we take for granted
•	Willful anachronisms and imposed limitations on workflows, for example 
writing on typewriters or using Super 8 film
•	The psychology of tradition and carrying the weight of the past

Place submit 250 word abstracts with accompanying 50-word bio and 5 
keywords to organizer (joe.darlington /at/ futureworks.ac.uk) by 31st January 
2020. Submissions are encouraged from academics, postgraduate 
researchers and non-academic speakers alike. Undergraduates, MAs and 
early career researchers are also encouraged to submit poster 
presentations. These will be posted around the conference venue and a 
time will be allotted for presenting your work to other attendees. A 
small prize will be awarded for the best poster.
If you would like to submit a poster presentation, please register your 
interest with organiser Cormac Donnelly at 
(Cormac.donnelly /at/ futureworks.ac.uk) by 31st January 2020.
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